In case you were wondering, a substantial portion of the text used in the Freedom of Speech blog entry dated Wednesday, January 24 (but actually published on Tuesday, January 30) was purloined without proper attribution (or even scant acknowledgement) from a far more coherent political blog called Tennessee Ticket.
Seems that the non-existent Professor Erika didn’t backdate her entry sufficiently far, as the original was published on January 22.
The preening professorial poseur is fond of demanding that rules be followed, and yet she’s entirely unable to consistently follow simple standards of honesty when it comes to identifying and attributing sources. Of course, this sort of serial misbehavior damages one’s credibility, but then again, credibility’s never been in ample supply at Dork and Mindy’s random character assassination generator.
In addition to that one, I really enjoyed the post of how the perfectly innocent citizen was tyrannically badgered by two police officers, in front of their wide eyed, and impressionable children for the barking dog.
ReplyDeleteOf course, as usual, there are no names of the "victim", but of course the Police officers names are prominantly displayed.
Further, freedom of speech made no attempt to obtain a run report, or verify even the slightest details of this damning post before placing it in front of the eyes of his/her/it's millions of loyal readers.
Once again, as th countless times before these instances, FOS shows absolutely no credibility or justification for the rhetoric that is regurgitated on a daily basis.
Here's what I figure as to what's up. Erika/Erik must have some type of keyboard lock on the quotation keys which limits the amount of times she/he can use them. As such, she/he can't quote lifted material because she/he has to save the number of uses of the quotation keys so that she/he has enough left over to put the name "Jimmy" in quotes.
ReplyDeleteIn a word....PATHETIC.
ReplyDeleteAnd, while others might have posted the same thought, I assure you, my statments were not lifted from any other post.
why were the kids up at 5 am to witness the whole thing?
ReplyDeleteoh they were sleeping in the living room. that explains it...?
ReplyDeleteDid anyone else notice that the e-mail had no day date, but it was "time-stamped" at 5:15 am, the exact same time that the incident occurred.
ReplyDeleteEither the writer is a really fast typist, or he wakes up at 5:15 every morning (to bring the dog in).
Or could it be that our local freedom fighter extrodinaire has a personal beef W/ Officer Jones and felt the need to grill him with out any way for anyone to respond, or defend the officer.
ReplyDeleteI fully admit that I haven't spoken with Travis Jones in years, we were on the police reserves together, and he worked w/ my wife at DLI before that, I have known him to be an easy going guy.
IF, and that is a big IF, he acted as described (highly doubtful) he had to have been provocted.
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Reminds me of the farmer telling the feed dealer that the store's oat price was too high. The dealer replied, "Well, for unused oats that is my price. Now, oats that have already been through the horse, those are a little cheaper."
We had a dog barking problem in our neighborhood a few years ago. I called the police dept. and they told me they don't go on "dog bark runs" anymore. They referred me to Animal Control.
ReplyDeleteThey said the reason was that when officers go to an address 1) the dog will always start barking and 2) chances are, they won't be able to go into the yard anyway because of the dog and the chance of an attack.
I'd want to hear the officers' side of the story before accepting the version on FOS.